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Rosetta Images Asteroid Steins
On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Steins on Sept. 5. JPL manages NASA's participation in the mission and supplied the Microwave Instrument.
+ European Space Agency site
(Sept. 8)
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Rosetta Set To Fly By Asteroid
On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will fly by asteroid Steins on Sept. 5. JPL manages NASA's participation in the Rosetta mission.
+ Rosetta home page
(Sept. 4)
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Pack Your Backpack
Calling all explorers! Tour JPL with our new Virtual Field Trip site. Stops include Mission Control and the Rover Lab. Cool space images and souvenirs are included in your visit.
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CURRENT MISSIONS |
Cassini-Huygens to Saturn
Studying Saturn and its rings and moons.
+ Mission home page
Dawn
Dawn, the first spacecraft ever planned to orbit two different bodies after leaving Earth, will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system.
+ Mission home page
Epoxi
The Epoxi mission recycles the already "in flight" Deep Impact spacecraft to investigate two distinct celestial targets of opportunity.
+ Mission overview
Mars Exploration Rovers
Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars since January 2004. Clues found in some rocks indicate liquid water once covered the ground.
+ Mission home page
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This orbiter has the most powerful telescopic camera ever to another planet, plus five other scientific instruments.
+ Mission home page
Mars Odyssey
This orbiter studies Mars' surface composition and radiation environment and has instruments to detect water and shallow buried ice.
+ Mission home page
Microwave Instrument
on Rosetta Orbiter
This JPL instrument will study gases given off by a comet as the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft orbits the comet. Rendezvous with the comet is scheduled for 2014.
+ Rosetta home page
Phoenix Mars Lander
This mission is using its robotic arm and other instruments to dig and analyze samples of soil and ice.
+ JPL Phoenix site
+ University of Arizona Phoenix site
Stardust-NExT
The Stardust-NExT mission recycles the already "in flight" Stardust spacecraft to flyby and investigate comet Tempel 1 in Feb. 2011.
+ Mission overview
Voyager
Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is now approaching interstellar space.
+ Mission home page
Ulysses
Orbits sun around the north and south poles.
+ Mission home page
+ Other Solar System missions
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